A social worker teaches an art class at the Rodney Youth Centre, informally known as The Club, Liverpool, UK, 1939. Original Publication: Picture Post – 4729 – The Street Corner with a Roof on – pub. 5th March 1939. (Photo by Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Welcome to Care or Criminality? This website includes a number of contributions relating to these key themes and most of the contributors attended the workshop in June 2024. Funded by an AHRC Fellowship, it is part of the project Reconsidering Crime in Working Class Homes and Family Life, 1918-1979 by Dr Charlotte Wildman, University of Manchester. You can read more about the project under ‘About’ or read the featured articles below. See a separate website sharing insights on working-class life from the project’s findings here: https://workingclassmemoirs.com/